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Cortex_Colossus
08-07-07, 12:22 PM
So truth is strictly subjective and on an individual basis? Delusions in the mind of someone is real if they believe in them or if they see them?

Perception is either a seeing or a belief/perspective/delusion/etc.

When the seeing becomes available, the psychology changes the perception of the mind, so reality is renewed including the object-level reality, where matter and perception combines on the object level while matter and God is more on the seeing level, which is most fundamental as this is where matter is distinct from object. Is this what M=R means? If so, how does the idea of universal intelligence (God) become the a priori or alpha omega?

S.A.M.
08-07-07, 12:24 PM
I think, therefore I am.

At some point, we have to accept that perception=reality.

Life would be impossible otherwise.

But its good to remember that we only see what we can.

Cortex_Colossus
08-07-07, 12:34 PM
But that is merely perception alone. What about brain=reality or better yet, mind=reality? How do we define the mind with science and does it even have a quantitative dimension?

Enmos
08-07-07, 05:34 PM
perception = reality interpreted by the brain

glaucon
08-07-07, 05:44 PM
So truth is strictly subjective and on an individual basis? Delusions in the mind of someone is real if they believe in them or if they see them?

Perception is either a seeing or a belief/perspective/delusion/etc.
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What you're describing is extreme Idealism, a la Berkeley....



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If so, how does the idea of universal intelligence (God) become the a priori or alpha omega?

Logically, it cannot.

However, when faced with such constraints, certain thinkers will invoke the 'god' notion to serve as a sort of linchpin that you're describing.

Which is one reason why the ontological philosophies of Berkeley, Spinoza et.al., are refuted.

The extension of strict empiricism towards subjective idealism that you're lurking in is more appropriately taken up by the phenomenalist school of thought.

Cortex_Colossus
08-07-07, 07:42 PM
Y'all are all fuckin bright.

glaucon
08-07-07, 07:44 PM
lol...

"ya'll?"